Erick Thohir's Message To The Next SOE Minister: Unite The Fertilizer And Food Ecosystem

JAKARTA - Meteri Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) Erick Thohir advised the next SOE minister to think about the long-term agenda. He said, blueprints or blueprints needed to be done because the transformation of SOEs could not be carried out in a short time.

"I don't think it's only in our SOEs that we always think about a short-term agenda, while if we want sustainable continuity it will take 10 to 15 years. Many times Pak Tiko (Wamen BUMN) and I'm talking about the transformation of SOEs, it won't be completed within 5 years," he said when met at TMII, East Jakarta, Sunday, May 5.

For example, continued Erick, China, which took 18 years to improve its country. Therefore, according to him, the long-term agenda for the sustainability of SOEs must be considered.

"China, if we benchmark, it will take 18 years. If China is so massive as to improve its country for 18 years, I don't think it is possible for Indonesian SOEs to only be 5 years," he said.

Erick also admitted that he had prepared a blueprint for the transformation of SOEs for the next 10 years. He stated that the blueprint could be a reference for the next SOE minister to strengthen the red plate company ecosystem.

"So we have a blueprint for Indonesian SOEs for the next 2034, 10 years. One of them is to create an ecosystem," he explained.

Fertilizer And Food Ecosystem

Furthermore, Erick said that one of the long-term blueprints that his party has prepared is to unite the fertilizer and food ecosystem. He said the two of them became an inseparable unit.

"Right now, we will unite fertilizer with separate food. Fertilizer and food, because this is an ecosystem, it is impossible to talk about food without fertilizer, for example. Now this is still separate," he said.

Erick said that if Indonesia wants to become the third largest fertilizer producing country in the world, there needs to be a blueprint that must be prepared. One of them is about the certainty of raw materials.

Di fertilizer sendiri masih banyak kekurangan, yaitu angka? sumber bahan bakunya ya ya malu perlu ada kepastian bahan baku. Nah itu yang didorong ke depan, katanya.

Towards the end of his term of office in October 2024, said Erick, his party will detail the long-term blueprint for the transformation of SOEs.

"This blueprint details so that whoever replaces us he has a blueprint. So that whoever replaces us and us, whoever can see oh, there is a job in the previous year. Unlike when we entered, we still don't know how many PMNs," he explained.